Monitoring the Variation in Ice-Cover Characteristics of the Slave River, Canada Using RADARSAT-2 Data—A Case Study

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Thuan Chu, Apurba Das, Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015
• Subjects: river ice freeze-up; spatio-temporal variation; RADARSAT-2; Slave River; high northern latitudes; Canada; Great Slave Lake; Nagle Channel; Northwest Territories
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs71013664

The winter regime of river-ice covers in high northern latitude regions is often a determining factor in the management of water resources, conservation of aquatic ecosystems and preservation of traditional and cultural lifestyles of local peoples. As ground-based monitoring of river-ice regimes in...